John Yaist
Product Engineer at Esri
Palm Springs, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Yaist is a Product Engineer with 11 years in hands-on product development and over two decades at Esri focused on making GIS tooling more reliable and usable. He authors and maintains the ArcGIS API for Python docs and DevLabs, contributes backend improvements to the widely used Esri/arcgis-python-api repository, and ensures release quality through comprehensive testing. His background spans technical support, geodatabase management, and community evangelism, giving him rare end-to-end insight from customer escalations to product releases. Based in Palm Springs, he blends deep cartography and GIS academic training with practical systems engineering to improve developer workflows. Colleagues know him for translating complex enterprise requirements into clear documentation and reproducible developer experiences. He’s quietly impactful—often improving system efficiency and developer productivity through backend optimizations that aren’t always visible in release notes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Geography: Cartography and GIS, Master of Arts, Geography: Cartography and GIS at The University of AkronBachelor of Science, Environmental Science, Water Quality Specialization, Bachelor of Science, Environmental Science, Water Quality Specialization at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (8)
api-rest10
rest-api10
backend10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
postgresql8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-python-api
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 327 reviews, 842 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Based on the provided commit messages, this user focused on implementing core backend functionalities, along with optimization tasks. The developer has experience with implementing new API features and fixing critical bugs. The impact of the user's contributions resulted in significant improvements to the system's efficiency.
apiarcgispythonjupyterlab-extensiondata-science
jyaistMap/arcgis-python-api
Feb 2017 - Jan 2025
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS Python API
Contributions:2 PRs, 468 pushes, 357 branches in 8 years
apidata-managementpythonarcgisesri
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